Ashoka

 Ashoka

Ashoka - ASPI-Re Fundraising Manager – India

 Globalizer  Bangalore, India

 Description

 Ashoka is the largest network of leading social entrepreneurs with systems changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected and supported over 3,800 social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows) in 90 countries. Through their work, these social entrepreneurs also enable millions of changemakers and contribute to Ashoka’s vision: building an everyone a changemaker world.  Ashoka functions as a collaborative network that supports and amplifies change by bringing together not only Ashoka Fellows, but also other changemakers who are committed to the good of all. 

 ASPI-Re is a program co-created by Ashoka and Societal Platform to pioneer and codify how to unleash network effects for social change through platforms, in partnership with Ashoka Fellows, to activate large social-impact movements.

The Opportunity

Ashoka is looking for a smart, resourceful, bright, and creative individual with a passion for social entrepreneurship and innovation to join our ASPI-Re global team.   Below are a few details of the role we are looking to fulfill

Support ASPIRE Ecosystem Building (40%):

• Co-create a journey to support the connection between ASPIRe Fellows and ASPIRe´s capital ecosystem potential members.  
• Organize and manage the quarterly on-line engagement events.
• Ongoing stakeholder engagement. Support on-time, high-quality reporting and regular communication
• Contribute to identifying potential new stakeholders to be involved. Maintain a prospect tracking system through ongoing research and filing

Support Fundraising Efforts (60%):

• Build relationships and manage fundraising new leads.
• Support close fundraising opportunities to raise funds for advancing the program.
• Lead and curate appropriate collaterals, presentations and documents to support the team´s grant writing/fundraising efforts.
• Co-create creative donor engagement and development of collaboration avenues for new stakeholders engagement. Develop a strategy for continued or increased engagement with potential or existing partners and contacts.
• Coordination for all internal report generation, feedback collection and timely submission to the required stakeholders.

The ideal candidate:

 The successful candidate will be highly networked, excellent in communication, skilled in creating collaterals, documents, story maps, narratives, able to communicate clearly and efficiently with diverse audiences.   Excellent relationship and Partnership Management skills are also important.   A successful fundraising track would be ideal.  You should be organized and analytical, with strong time management and multitasking skills. Able to work on own initiative and under minimal supervision, self-motivated, and a strong team player. In addition, the candidate will possess the ability to constructively work on feedback, have an outgoing personality who is passionate about building good brand experience and strong consciousness about key proceedings in the program.

Ashoka has a rigorous screening process for hiring staff at all career stages. All applicants for all positions must possess the following qualities along with the appropriate degree of experience:

• Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life.
• Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context.
• Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
• Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.
• Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.

This is a full-time position is based in Bangalore.

For more information and online application click here